1st 9 Weeks Study Guide

What group made up the largest part of the Union Pacific's workforce?

• African Americans

• former Union Army soldiers

• Irish immigrants

• Chinese immigrants

This was considered to be a frozen useless wasteland, until gold was discovered there in the late 1800s.

• Iceland

• Hawaii

• Guam

• Alaska

What did Liliuokalani propose after she became Queen of the Hawaiian Islands?

• a set of reforms to help the Hawaiian planters

• the annexation of Hawaii to the United States

• a new constitution to return power to her monarchy

• a treaty to allow tax-free shipping to the United States

Yellow Journalism helped contribute to the start of the Spanish-American war by...

• uncovering the truth of what really happened to the USS Maine

• forcing the Spanish to negotiate a new treaty

• providing a thorough and accurate record of the events in Cuba

• inflaming public opinion in the U.S. against Spain

Why was the purchase of Alaska by the United States in 1867 called "Seward's Folly"?

• Americans thought Alaska was nothing by a frozen wasteland and had no resources to offer.

• Americans didn't want to own a territory so far from the mainland and so close to Russia.

• The United States had already annexed Samoa, and didn't need another Pacific territory.

• Americans thought the two-cents per acre price tag for Alaska was too expensive.

Which innovation used electricity to send news across the country?

• the Pony Express

• the transcontinental railroad

• the telegraph

• the stagecoach

The future states of California, Nevada, Arizona, and New Mexico came from land won in what war?

• Mexican-American War

• the Revolutionary War

• the Civil War

• the Spanish-American War

Who were called "buffalo soldiers" by the Plains Indians?

• African American calvary

• Plains Indian rebels

• U.S. infantry

• General Custer's troops

This land purchase doubled the size of the United States overnight.

• Mexican Cessian

• Louisiana Purchase

• Purchase of Alaska

• Gadsden Purchase

The peace treaty between the United States and Spain after the Spanish-American War placed which territory under U.S. control, along with Guam, Puerto Rico, and Cuba?

• Burma

• Phillipines

• Haiti

• Ghana